Investigated differences among both uncomplicated and depressed reactions to conjugal bereavement and major depression unrelated to widowhood. Both uncomplicated and depressed bereaved evidenced less intense depressive mood, and less dysfunctional pattern of depressotypic cognition, than did nonbereaved psychiatric depressed. Concluded that bereavement depression was not tantamount to nonbereavement depression, at least in terms of cognitive functioning. (Author/NB)